The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
Demonoid, one of the largest and most respected of the Torrent tracking sites has gone offline, allegedly having been shut down...
The MediaDefender-MiiVi debacle continues on, so I thought we’d take a look at the truth behind the whole sorry saga. Miivi...
At a New York conference on Monday sponsored by The Deal ( a financial news organization), Michael Fricklas (Viacom’s general counsel)...
Prince is planning on suing YouTube and a host of other major companies for supposed copyright infringement after they used his...
Hulu, the joint video venture between NBC and News Corp is once again in the news for its rather bizarre name....
Who came off better and worse in the recent Apple NBC iTunes debacle? The Internet is buzzing with opinions and viewpoints...
YouTube has brokered a deal with the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society – Performing Right Society Alliance (MCPS-PRS Alliance forthwith) in order...
Photo credit: Pedro Nogueira Until now, producing good quality opening titles, station breaks and incidental footage for your online video channel...
We all know that there are plenty of pirate TV episodes being posted on websites like YouTube, and we all know...
BitTorrent uses the P2P architecture but build upon it while blurring the already unclear legal lines. The growth in the popularity...
Suprnova.org was the be all and end all of Bittorrent sites before The Pirate Bay came along. And now it has...
Digital Rights Management or DRM for short, is an invention the rational amongst us wish had never come to be. It’s...
In a statement which has chilled the blood of many U.S. IPTV operators, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has just asked...
Over at the doom9 forums they are discussing the program Fairuse4WM program that strips any media file that plays on Microsoft’s...
What would you say if we told you that there are people out there that want to make sharing your media...
Last month, NBC Universal filed comments in the FCC’s proceeding on “Broadband Industry Practices.” NBC asked that the FCC require that...
YouTube‘s Claim Your Content, a video recognition technology supposedly as sophisticated and precise as the FBI’s fingerprint recognition algorithms, will incorporate...
Almost everyday I read another article about DRM and over aggressive copyright laws hindering people from watching online videos the way...
The BBC has used 4 years and a lot of money to develop an on demand video player that is out...
The EU and US Governments were recently provided with a list of consumer principles relating to DRM. The Trans Atlantic Consumer...
British music and entertainment retailer HMV is planning a social networking site and DRM free downloads. The site is expected to...
The National Football League, like the Olympics, guards its product and online image very tightly. In this vain, the pro football...
Peekvid got shut down. Was the MPAA involved…? Click here to Search for TV Shows & Movies Online Peekvid is a...
Back in April we heard from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google — parent company of YouTube, that YouTube will be...
